Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days .
2 They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business .
3 The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) .
4 She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter .
5 The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes .
6 This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period .
7 This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development .
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